Car-replacer



(N0 Model.)

O. O. KELLY 85 J.-E. LEE.

GAR REPLAGER. N0. 369,530. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

UNITEU SIA'IES PATENT FFICE CHARLES O. KELLY AND JAMES E. LEE, OF BALIIMORE, MARYLAND, AS-

SIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO HENRY BURG, WEST VIRGINIA.

ST. JOHN SHEPHERD, OF MARTINS- CAR-R EPLACER.

SPI-IICIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent I\To. 369,530, dated September 6 1887.

Application filed May 18,1887. Serial N0. 238.656. (N 'rnodel.)

T0 all wh0m z't may concern:

Be 1't known tha.n we, CHARLES O. KELLY und JAMES E. LEE, cibizens of bhe Umted States, residing in the city of Baltimore, in

the Stute 0f Maryland, have invented a new and useful OanReplacer, 0f which the 1"0110W- ing is a correct descripbion.

In United States Patent N0. 309,230, whieh was issued t0 us 011 the 16th day 0f December,

1884, we des'cribed an apparataus for restoring t0 it-s proper position upon the track 0f a1ailway a' locon1obive 01 a ear which has been accidentally removed therefrom, such apparatns consisbing, essentially, 0f a double-in- 1 plined ear-lifter, which is placed outside the trank, but cont-iguous t0 the rail, and adoubleinclined replacer, which is plaeed bebween the brack-rails and is applicable t0 eityher 0f thern, the bw0 distinct parts being arranged 2 coincidently anal the function 0f the lifter being 130 elevabe 0ne of the wheels 0f the 1000- motive or oar, while Ehe functi'on 0f t-he replacer is 130 engage the fiange '0f the opposite wheel 0f such locomobive 01' car and force it;

g 5 outwardly toward the rail, suitable detachalole lifbing-pins being provided upon the face of such replacer so elevate the wheel ab bhe proper momenta t0 a posibion from which in falling it will resume its place upon the rail.

'The use of the apparatus thus constructed and provided Wibh suit-able appliances for prolongation 0f the lifter and be replacer, and for securing the same in position for operation, has been attended With results which in bhe main have been enbirely satis factory. Ib has been found, however, Lhat; greater faeility in use and greater eertainty in operation are assured through certain modifications in the conslzruobion of Ehe part which 0 in the patent referred 130 1's designated as the replacer, in connection with certain other parts which have relation thereto.

The invention consists in a double-inelined ear replacer whieh has a longitudinally straight side, which is 0f such conformalaion vertieally as t=0 adapt it to fit the recess between the lower surfaee of the tread and the upper surfaee of the flange 01' base of the braclcrail, und which in its t0p portion is pr0- top 0f the track-rail A 01 A.

vided with a longitudinal groove Wlll(f1l is parallel with the straight side of bhe replaeer und with tl1e track-rail.

'Ihe invenbion consists, also, in a doubleinclined car-replaaer which lms a longibuclinally straight side, which is of such conformation in a verbical plane as to adapt ib 130 fit the recess bebween bhe botbom 0f the tread und .the top 0f the flange of the track-rail, und which in its top, along 0ne side thereof and direetly under t1he tread, is provided with detachable bearing-pins.

The invention consists, also, in vurious novel coxnbinations 0f elements, as Will be hereinafter described und claimed.

In bhe drawings, Figure 11's a top plan view representing a section 0f a milway which :is provided With our improved car-replacing apparatus. Fig. 2 represenc-s a longitudinal verbical seotion 0f the replacer proper 011 bheline x 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a 1bransverse vertical secbion on the line yy 0f Fig. l. Fig. 4 represents bearingpins detached; a.nd Fig. 5 is a transverse section, si1nilar to Fig. 3, und like it drawn to an enlarged scale, sh.owing the application 0f the replacer t0 a rail 0f greater vertical extent.

As seen in Fig. l, A A am bhe trackrails; B, the replacer; O, the 'lifter; D, the damping-plate, provided with t11e upturned engaging-hook d, such platte extending underneath bhe rail and underneath t-he replaer 01 the lifter, und being secured in posibion by Ehe engagement; 0f nhe setserew E with he vert1ical fiange d 0f the clamping-plate and with Ehe replaeer or lifter, and by the engagennents 0f Ehe hook d with bhe flange 0f tlne trankrail. groove t0 receive tzhe fiange of Ehe wheel as the tread thereof passes fronn the top 0f the detachable liftiingpins c in thenrificns 0 b0 the b is a recess 0r caviby which may be forn1ed in bhe bottom surface thereof 130 render the replacer lese he'avy Withoul; diminishing its strength. b

are orifiees 60 receive bearing-pins Fr, to engage the 10Wer surface of the tread.

lt: Will be understood filmt, owing t0 the varying dimensions of traek-rails, a re placer of In tzlie replacer b is Ehe longitudinal given dimensions ivvould not fit rails of dissimilar vertical extent, and tha'b through the provision of the series of marginal orifiees 12 .and of the bearing-pins b which, as Seen in Fig. 4:, may be of various dimensions, a single replaeer may be adapted 130 the lateral recess of all the various paoterns of T- rails now manufaotured.

Ha'ving describecl our invention, wo clairn l. A double-inelined car-replaeer which has a longibudinally straight sidewbieh is f such conformation vertically as to adapb it 110 fit; the recess between the lower surfaee of the tread anti the' upper surface of the flange of tahe track-rail, and which in its longitudinally central double-inclined top porion is provided Wibh a longitudinal groove Whi0h is parallel with the straight'side of the 'replacer.

2. A double inolined ear-replacer which has a longitudinally straight side, which is of such eonfonnation in a vertical plane as so adapt it to the flange and Ehe body of the track-rail, and whieh is provided with a series of marginal detachable bearing-pins.

3. A double-inelined car-replacer whieh has a longitudinally straighb side, which fits the side of the track-rail, and which is provided witah a longitudinal groove and wibh a series of marginal detachable bearingpins.

4. A double-inclined can-replaeer whioh has a longitudinally straight transversely-curved side, which eorresponds no filme eurvabure of the traok-rail, anti whieh is provided upon its top surface with a series of dehachable lifting-pins, a longitudinal groove, and a series of detachable bearing-pins.

5. The combinabion, with be rail A, of talie replacer B, provided with longitudinal groove b, ancl wih the bwo series of orifices c and b to receive, respeotively, the lifbing-pins c and the bearing-pins b CHARLES o. KELLY. JAMES E. LEE.

W itnesses:

O. R. GALLAGHER, WM. J. WHITE. 

